{"id":197,"date":"2022-08-04T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/?p=197"},"modified":"2022-08-04T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:13:40","slug":"ag-cellulosecnt-composite-for-molecular-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/2022\/08\/04\/ag-cellulosecnt-composite-for-molecular-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag-Cellulose\/CNT Composite for Molecular Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aromatic molecules are ubiquitous environmental pollutants, which show a significant threat to human health because of their hazardous nature. Currently, many research works focus on developing rapid molecular detection techniques compared to time-consuming conventional detection methods with complicated procedures. Recently we have introduced a technique for rapid detection of phthalates in solutions in which we have used carbon nanotube (CNT) buckypapers and CNT\/cellulose composite membranes as an electrochemical sensing materials. However, they have a limitation of detecting phthalates in dilute solutions, which is great disadvantage. Therefore in this study, Silver (Ag) incorporated cellulose is used with CNT to develop a highly sensitive phthalate sensing material. Based on the studies carried out so far, this developed material shows potential for detecting down to 1 ppm (v\/v) concentrated phthalates in solutions. Further studies on increasing the sensitivity of the developed phthalate sensing cellulose\/CNT material and developing an easy-to-use, real-time, and in-situ phthalate sensor are to be done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manuscripts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anuchani, P.; Abeysinghe, H.; Etampawala, T.N.B.; <em>Ag-nanoparticle Decorated Cellulose\/CNT Composite for Detection of Aromatic Molecules<\/em>, MRS Advances (Submitted, 2022)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/ag-cellulose.jpg\" alt=\"ag-cellulose\" width=\"567\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/ag-cellulose.jpg 567w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/ag-cellulose-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/ag-cellulose-100x60.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aromatic molecules are ubiquitous environmental pollutants, which show a significant threat to human health because of their hazardous nature. Currently, many research works focus on developing rapid molecular detection techniques compared to time-consuming conventional detection methods with complicated procedures. Recently we have introduced a technique for rapid detection of phthalates in solutions in which we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/2022\/08\/04\/ag-cellulosecnt-composite-for-molecular-detection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ag-Cellulose\/CNT Composite for Molecular Detection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/ag-cellulose.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"charith","author_link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/author\/charith\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}